<b>Quick Response Journey</b> // Viaje de respuesta rápida

Authors

  • Pia Alejandra Galvez Lindegaard

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/ECOZONA.2017.8.2.1092

Keywords:

Installation, environmental arts, QR, code, symbol // Instalación, arte medioambiental, código, símbolo

Abstract

      The Quick Response Journey installation is inspired by the QR code (a matrix to store and encode high volumes of data) that is becoming more and more familiar to all of us due to the increasing use of portable electronics. A QR code contains information with fast readability, it is a digital symbol of our times. Digitalised. Virtualised. Dematerialised. But on the other hand, our adaptation as humans is not as fast as technology is. Nowadays we are devoted to the technology, apparently it is important for us. We have faith in tech. This QR code is materialised to go in and experience a metaphorical journey, an ultra-fast pilgrimage trying to balance our primitive and technological needs. We start the journey entering from the carbon society. While we walk through the green corridor we absorb all the condensed amount of data of living nature. The same QR code is in the centre inside an illuminated box from the bottom full of sprouts, symbols of nature and inspiration to reverse the destruction of the earth going towards a post-carbon society.

 

Resumen

      La instalación de Viaje de respuesta rápida está inspirada en el código QR (una matriz para almacenar y codificar gran cantidad de datos), que se está volviendo cada vez más conocido para todos debido a su uso en aumento en sistemas electrónicos portátiles. Un ´código QR contiene información de rápida legibilidad, es un símbolo digital de nuestra época. Digitalizado. Virtualizado. Desmaterializado. Pero por otro lado, nuestra adaptación como humanos no es tan rápida como la tecnología. Hoy en día estamos dedicados a la tecnología, aparentemente es importante para nosotros. Tenemos fe en ella. Este código QR se materializa para ir en un viaje metafórico y para experimentarlo, un peregrinaje ultra rápido que intenta equilibrar nuestras necesidades primitivas y tecnológicas. Empezamos el viaje entrando desde la sociedad de carbono. Mientras caminamos por el pasillo verde absorbemos todas las cantidades de datos condensadas de la naturaleza viva. El mismo código QR está en el centro de una caja iluminada desde abajo, llena de brotes, símbolos de la naturaleza e inspiración para revertir la destrucción de la tierra yendo hacia una sociedad post-carbono.

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Author Biography

Pia Alejandra Galvez Lindegaard

Pia Alejandra Galvez Lindegaard  (b. 1979, Valparaiso) is and Architect/builder and artist based in Spain (Madrid/Barcelona). Since the year 2010, she has been developing projects of environmental architecture, site-specific installation and photography related to the environment and the natural materials with low impact such as straw bales, earth, timber, water, bamboo and canes.

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Published

2017-10-31

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 2 (2017): Green Computer and Video Games

Section

Creative Writing and Arts

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